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From the movie "Chosin Lake", I thought about it
Zhao Shunnian
Thanks to the hospitality of my friend Mr. Liu Jinbo, when the movie "Chosin Lake" was just released in Zhucheng, I watched this movie that has the largest investment in the history of China, the largest number of cast members, the most shocking war scenes, and the most tragic confrontation between the enemy and us.
It was the 2021 National Day holiday, and I accompanied my family to the "Yuandu Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic" at No. 29 Tea Ceremony Ancient Street, which is directly opposite the north gate of Zhucheng Fork Road Park, to find Mr. Liu Jinbo for medical treatment, and began to do acupuncture for the treatment of frozen shoulder.
Mr. Liu Jinbo makes me grateful and moved!
What makes me grateful is that Liu Jinbo's enthusiasm and sincerity in inviting me to watch the "Chosin Lake" movie, of course, is not only because of his hospitality, but because when I was paying special attention to and eagerly wanting to see the movie "Chosin Lake", he gave me this opportunity to see it in a very timely manner, so that I enjoyed this visual feast with full enjoyment, and deeply felt this majestic and mighty battle song composed with youth, blood and life, full of family feelings and lofty internationalism!
What touched me was that Liu Jinbo was a doctor, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, after graduating from college, he studied the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic", "Yellow Emperor's Eighty-one Difficult Classics", "Typhoid Fever" and other Traditional Chinese medicine classics, and took the characteristics of many acupuncture methods such as Dong's Qixiao, under the guidance of ancient Chinese medicine theory, formed his own unique "distinguishing yin and yang, seeking the same qi" Chase acupuncture method, the "above under the rule, the following rule, the left to the right, the right to the left, the same qi, yin and yang reverse" The treatment law is applied to the clinic, which is safe and convenient, and the efficacy is exact. On the basis of mastering a set of mature traditional Chinese medicine, Traditional Chinese medicine theory and unique skills, mr. Liu Jinbo has won the general praise of patients, and under the guidance of his mentor Professor Shi Xuemin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, master of traditional Chinese medicine and expert in acupuncture, he is determined to inherit the original acupuncture method of Professor Shi Xuemin, the doctoral supervisor, and make higher achievements in the treatment of a variety of difficult diseases and manual quantitative research by the acupuncture method, bravely climb the peak of medicine, and relieve the pain of more patients in need. Liu Jinbo is young and self-evident, and his spirit of diligence, good at studying, and bravely climbing the peak of medicine has touched me. But what moved me the most was that when watching the movie "Chosin Lake", he let his daughter who was in college and his son who had just entered elementary school step into the theater together, and he said to me: "Let the children watch this movie is not to let them watch the hilarity, but to let them be educated, to let them see the cruelty of war, to know the social tranquility and the happiness of life is not easy!" ”
This sentence made me extremely moved!
Nowadays, people really need education in this area of war! Education in this area should be carried out and strengthened not only by young people, but also by the elderly. This education is not a question of which side is strong and who is weak in the war, and who wins and who loses, but the cruelty and ruthlessness of the war, so that everyone can see that human life is mentally strong and physically fragile in war, and that spiritual strength is strong, which is an aspect of defeating the enemy, but in the human flesh, especially on the battlefield of modern warfare, it will instantly disappear, and even as simple as the autumn wind sweeping down a leaf and crushing an ant at the foot of a leaf, in the instant of the flash of fire, one or more living people will immediately be crushed to pieces. The movie "Chosin Lake", regardless of who wins and who loses, only in terms of cruelty on the battlefield, has been vividly expressed in many scenes, including "Ice Sculpture Company", including potatoes frozen into ice cubes and broken teeth, of course, including the harsh climate and environment faced by the US military and the United Nations army. I think that human life is the most precious, and any war is the destruction of human life, is a blasphemy against a peaceful society, is a trampling on people's happy life, a war down, I don't know how many people's lives will be taken, I don't know how many people will be in pain, I don't know how many families will be separated from their families and families! In this respect, all people in the world must know how to cherish and respect life, all countries must avoid and contain wars, let future generations stay away from killing, forge swords into ploughshares, and let the peoples of different countries, different races and different cultures live in harmony.
As a film, from an artistic point of view, no matter what kind of hard work the main creators make and how much labor they pay, there will always be such defects and deficiencies, moreover, "Chosin Lake" is related to both international and domestic, but also related to history and present, but also related to the epic huge production of war and peace, its theme is distinct, the story conception, the scene design, the character portrayal, the details of the depiction, etc. are undoubtedly very successful. Although the film lasts nearly 3 hours, it cannot bear the hardships and excellence of the three-year War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, how can it not bear the tragedy of special wars in that special environment, and it is even more impossible to carry the specific scenes and details of every battle and every battle in a limited film time!
Needless to say, a movie is a movie, and even the highest level of screenwriters, directors, actors, including the application of modern shooting and production technology, can neither and cannot reproduce the real, dangerous, cruel and bloody on the battlefield.
I don't want to comment on the film "Chosin Lake", because the reviews of it are already overwhelming, the praise is overwhelming, and of course, there are inevitably derogatory words and even nitpicking words. Of course, I can also find many of its flaws and deficiencies, and even more obvious errors. However, I'm not engaged in film criticism. Here, I just want to tell you that what came to mind when I watched this movie was the words that I wrote down after watching it.
I entered the theater with the heart of learning more about the horrors and education of the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea from the film, because that war had a connection with me, and it was a very close connection--my eldest brother died in that tragic war.
At the beginning of the movie, when Wu Qianli went home with his hands holding the urn containing his eldest brother Wu Baili's ashes, he went home to visit his parents, and said that he wanted to help his parents build a house for the old third Wu Wanli to say that he was a daughter-in-law, but only one night later, the next morning he received an order for the troops to assemble and leave urgently. He didn't know where to go, and even if he knew, he couldn't tell his parents where to go, so he only told his parents that he would come back soon, and when he came back, he would not only help his parents build a house, but also help their parents plant the few acres of land they had just been allocated. He and his parents cling to the other scene, and at once substituted me for the scene where my eldest brother was about to go to the court and my father's final separation!
It was the end of November 1952, and the newly established township post office sent an urgent telegram to my father: "Please father come quickly." The telegram came from Changshu, Jiangsu Province. The father was illiterate and took the telegram for the second brother to see. After the second brother read the telegram and did not speak for a long time, his father was anxious and asked, "What's wrong, what is the matter on the telegram?" Say it! ”
The second brother was nervous but said to his father in a slow tone, "There may be something there that my eldest brother has, let you go quickly." ”
When the father heard this, he looked at the second brother with great surprise and did not speak.
The two grandfathers did not speak after knowing the contents of the telegram, but their hearts were equally heavy and heavy together. First, because they were all worried that something must have happened to the eldest brother, judging from the four words on the telegram, the composition of the song was greater than the good component, and the matter was very urgent; the second was because there was a more serious and troublesome thing in the family, that is, my mother and my second sister-in-law were pregnant at that time: the mother was pregnant with me, and the second sister-in-law was pregnant with my eldest nephew Peihua. At that time, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were pregnant at the same time, and the matter of confinement in rural China, although not very common, was not uncommon. When the father and the second brother received the telegram from the eldest brother, the mother and the second sister-in-law had reached the time when their bodies were incapacitated, and they could not say that they would have to sit in confinement one day, so they could not leave the house together, and one of the grandfathers immediately set out to see the eldest brother, and the other had to take care of the two pregnant women at home. The right person to take care of the two pregnant women at the same time is the second brother, he can take care of his daughter-in-law, but also take care of the mother, if the father is at home, he has a lot of inconvenience, or can not take care of the second sister-in-law. However, from the rural Dujitai Village in Zhucheng County, Shandong Province to Changshu in Jiangsu Province, I don't know whether it is the county seat or the countryside, thousands of miles away, how the father went to the second brother is worried, he is worried about the father's illiteracy, the father can't read a word! The father naturally saw through the difficulties of the second brother, and he also knew that he had a long and very difficult journey to go, far, as far away as the sky, difficult, difficult to go to the sky. The two big eyes and small eyes were worried for half a day, but the eldest brother's side did not delay, forcing his father to make a decision as soon as possible, he said to the second brother: "You take care of your mother and your daughter-in-law at home, I will go by myself, and I will leave now." ”
My father was on the road for several days, and finally arrived in Changshu.
A father who did not know a word, in that era traveled far away, cars, trains back and forth toss, its degree of difficulty can be imagined, according to the father himself, along the way, he kept asking for directions, asking dry tongue, because of the language barrier, sometimes it is difficult to catch up with the cavity, but what he said he said people can not understand at all, what people say he can not understand, the ears are filled with a lot of "twitter wow", the father said that it is more difficult to understand than the words of the little devil, plus the heart is anxious to catch fire, when the big brother troops are already dumb. Fortunately, Changshu only had the unit where the eldest brother was stationed at that time, otherwise, even if he arrived in Changshu, his father would have to go to great lengths to find the eldest brother. It was easy to find the gate of the troops, the father explained to the soldier standing guard for most of the day, that is, he did not let the family understand who to look for, fortunately, a soldier who was a little older like an official walked from the outside to the courtyard, he asked his father who to look for, the father said several times who to look for, the official-like soldier seemed to understand, so he very politely shouted, "Uncle, please follow me!" ”
The officer-like soldier led his father into the courtyard.
The courtyard was full of people, all of whom were soldiers, and they didn't know what they were busy with. The father followed the officer-like soldier all the way to the door at the easternmost end of a row of houses in the front, and the official-like soldier stood at the door and shouted loudly: "Report to the commander of the regiment, your uncle is coming!" ”
The eldest brother ran out of the house, and when he saw that it was indeed his father, he shouted very happily: "Grandpa, are you here?" ”
The father followed the eldest brother into the house, and saw that although the house was a little messy, the eldest brother was well, so he asked the eldest brother to make an urgent telegram, urging him to come quickly to something.
The eldest brother said very easily: "There is nothing to do, just want grandpa, let grandpa come and see." ”
The father looked very unhappy and said, "This old man called me to come, is it to see you or to look at me?" ”
When the eldest brother saw the situation, his heart was very clear, and he said to his father with a smile on his face: "Grandpa, don't you see me all the same, anyway, I saw Grandpa, grandpa also saw the son." Grandpa, since you have come, relax your heart, live here for a few more days, and your son will accompany you to play around, this south is much better than our north. ”
The father was even more reluctant to listen to it, and said to the eldest brother with some anger: "The family is busy, who has the heart to play, there is really nothing to do, tomorrow the day after tomorrow I will go back." ”
The father only told the eldest brother that the second brother was married and was about to have a child, but he concealed that the mother was also pregnant and would soon have a confinement to give birth.
In fact, the eldest brother wanted to see his father at that time, which was felt by his father later!
The eldest brother knew that even if he really had something, his father would not be able to help when he came. Therefore, the eldest brother has always shown a relaxed look and said to his father: "Grandpa rests first today, and tomorrow I will accompany you to look around Changshu City first." After seeing Changshu City, I accompanied my grandfather to see other places. ”
All the way to tossing, all the way bumpy, all the way to the language barrier, all the way do not know how to take the car how to take the train, the father is really tired, he can not care about the big brother to worry about it, so he followed the big brother to the west end of the courtyard.
The eldest brother placed his father at the reception of the army, and he was busy with other things.
In the reception of the troops, my father also saw several men and women, young and old, some giggling and shouting; some wiping their eyes and wiping tears, crying and crying; most of them were chattering, tuned from the south to the north, and my father could not understand what people said, plus he was tired all the way, and he fell asleep lying on the bed.
My father slept until dawn the next day, and when he woke up in the morning, the eldest brother accompanied his father to breakfast and dragged his father to Changshu City in an American "37" jeep. In the car, the eldest brother told his father as he walked, what kind of street is this, what kind of road is this... The father's face was dismissive and absent-minded. The eldest brother said purposefully, he did not care whether his father listened or not, continued to explain to his father, to cross a few streets, after turning a few corners, the car stopped in front of a photo studio, the eldest brother persuaded the father who did not want to go in, forced to accompany the father to go in, asked the photographer to take a picture of the grandfather, and said that he would come early tomorrow morning to get it. Father saw that the business of the photo studio was very good, and there were many people taking photos, most of them were soldiers and some family members, and some of them also greeted and saluted the eldest brother.
When he came out of the photo studio, his father asked the eldest brother, "When will you become the head of the regiment?" ”
The eldest brother said, "It was the day I sent you the telegram, and the order was just given from above." ”
Father said, "Hurrying to shoot a telegram to let me come, is to see you as the leader of the regiment?" ”
The eldest brother said a little stubbornly, "Yes, it is for you to come and see your son as the leader of the regiment." ”
The next day, that is, the third day after the father arrived in Changshu, the eldest brother had just finished breakfast with his father, and he saw a soldier who sent three photos to the eldest brother, and the eldest brother showed him a picture of it, and the father carefully looked at it and said happily: "Good, good, strangely good!" ”
The eldest brother said, "Grandpa, you can take this picture home, I keep these two." ”
Father was still looking at the picture and nodded in agreement. At this time, another soldier came and handed the eldest brother a folder, and the eldest brother looked at it, and then said to his father: "Grandpa, you rest first, I will come over in a moment." ”
Father nodded and put the picture in his pocket.
Less than half an hour later, the eldest brother returned and said to his father, "Grandpa, didn't you say that the family was very busy?" Go back tomorrow! I'll drop you off at the train station tomorrow morning! ”
When my father heard the eldest brother tell him to go back, he was not only stunned, but also on fire, on fire! He scolded the eldest brother directly and asked, "What trick are you playing?" Do you know how difficult it is for Grandpa to come on this trip, how much sin and how tired and how many difficulties he has suffered on the road? When I first came here, I said let me stay longer and play, how did this suddenly shake me? ”
The eldest brother quickly explained to his father: "I just received the order that the troops are leaving!" ”
The father asked, "Go?" Where? ”
The eldest brother said, "Northeast." ”
At that time, when my father was at home, he had heard about the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and he had also participated in demonstrations in the village, and he had followed people shouting the slogan of "Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Defend the Family and Defend the Country," but he had no idea which direction and which place the DPRK was in, and according to his thoughts, the DPRK should be in the southeast direction of Dujitai. Moreover, it is normal for troops to change places frequently. Therefore, the eldest brother said that he set off for the northeast, but his father did not go to his heart. But his father's fire could not be extinguished, how could he not expect that he received so many words on the telegram, and after coming, he did not live for 4 days before he turned back, even if a word lived for a day, but ... I walked on the road for seven or eight days, along the way I can't eat and drink, I can't find a pee and pee hut, that difficulty will be able to "make a cure" for a few days, I thought that the big brother here is something big and urgent, good things, even if it is a bad thing, after coming to see that there is nothing to do, even a serious meal is not fished to eat, at home I heard that southerners eat rice, I want to dream of tasting what rice is like, but even a bowl of rice porridge is not fished to drink, If you stay for a few more days, you will definitely be able to eat rice, and this will be called away immediately! Before and after I took such a photo, I knew that just to take that photo, needless to say that you sent a four-word telegram, you just sent a telegram of forty words and four hundred words, and I didn't come...
The father's temper, the eldest brother knew that good words and persuasion were useless, so he told his father a secret, which was also a great joy, and used this secret and a great joy to extinguish the fire in his father's heart. The eldest brother originally wanted to live for a few days before telling his father, but the situation was urgent, and his father was angry, and he did not tell his father again, maybe he would never have the opportunity to tell his father!
The eldest brother told his father that he had married, married him a beautiful daughter-in-law, and gave him a grandson, because he fought all day and worried about his father's concern, so he did not tell his father anything. This time, I asked my father to come in order to lead my father to Shanghai to see my eldest daughter-in-law and eldest grandson. But before he could go to Shanghai, he received orders that the troops were going to leave, so he asked his father to go back first, and when he returned from the departure, he asked his father to go to Suzhou and Hangzhou, to Shanghai, to see the eldest daughter-in-law and the eldest grandson.
In fact, the eldest brother spent a night to convince his father, and the grandfather did not sleep all night. The eldest brother told his father some important experiences after he became a soldier, especially the story with my sister-in-law. The story of my eldest brother and my sister-in-law is legendary, and it was told to me and my second brother one night when my father was seriously ill at Zhucheng People's Hospital. I want to tell a detailed account of the story of my eldest brother in my long documentary literature "Father and Son", and I will only say one thing today, that is, the one thing that the eldest brother and father wanted to find was never found, which became the regret of both of their grandfathers, the regret of not being able to close their eyes for the rest of their lives. Now, that thing has been found, it was found at 15:05 on August 27, 2019! It was a shell, a shell of a Japanese devil's mortar. The shell did not explode at that time, if it had exploded, the eldest brother would have died at that time, and there would have been no story of my eldest brother and sister-in-law, no regrets of the eldest brother and my father's life, and even the regrets of my second brother, because my father told me and my second brother, and strictly emphasized: If I could not find the shell, the story about my eldest brother and sister-in-law should not be mentioned to anyone, and the right did not happen. If I found it, I would have to find a way to restore my eldest brother's reputation and find a way to go to Shanghai to find my sister-in-law and my nephew. My eldest brother's story is tragic, tortuous, tragic, and difficult, and even more tragic is the grievances and unfair treatment suffered by my eldest brother, and because he could not find the shell that had not yet exploded, he regretted it for the rest of his life. That story is very long, and I will not expand on this article, but I would like to thank Zhang Liqing, the instructor of the Shiqiaozi police station, and thank him deeply. After Zhang Liqing's instructor published a WeChat message in the circle of friends that found the shell and attached a photo of the shell, I immediately called And Zhang Liqing's instructor to do a certification, the shell was a devil's mortar shell, and the location of the discovery was found in Dujitai and the south bank of the Dajingezhuang Canal not far from the old forest in the northwest of Dujitai...
After breakfast, the eldest brother personally sent his father to the Suzhou Railway Station, which was often unfamiliar with the train. Changshu and Suzhou are 40 to 50 kilometers apart, although the road conditions are not good, the jeep bumps all the way for an hour or so, and then it arrives at suzhou railway station. On the way, the eldest brother did not say a word, and the father knew that the son had something on his mind and did not ask anything.
When I got to the train station, the driver went to the window to get the ticket, and the eldest brother joked with his father and repeated it again: "Grandpa, everyone says that there is heaven on the top and Suzhou and Hangzhou on the bottom, and when I come back, I will let you and your mother-in-law go to Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai, and see, play, and also look at your daughter-in-law and grandson!" ”
Father said, "Well, when the time comes, you will shoot the telegram again, and I will come when I receive it." ”
At this time, the train ticket was retrieved, and the eldest brother handed the ticket to his father, and at the same time, he took out a few bills from his pocket and handed it to his father. The father did not want it, the eldest brother said: "Grandpa, you take it, the son has been a soldier for so many years, he has not fulfilled his filial piety, the money is not much, just this point, you take the road to buy some hot soup and hot water to eat!" ”
The father did not say anything more, and casually tucked the money given to him by the eldest brother into his pocket.
When the train came, the eldest brother helped his father to the car, found a seat for his father, let his father sit well, he stroked and combed his father's bald head with his hand, and then put his face on his father's forehead, and when his father did not feel anything coming, the eldest brother did not say a word, turned his head and got off the train. The eldest brother got off the train and stood on the platform, looking at the window where his father was sitting quietly waiting for the train to start.
After a while, with the sound of a whistle, the train started. The father stuck his head out of the car window and shouted loudly to the eldest brother: "Go back, you go back quickly!" ”
The eldest brother waved his hand to his father, did not shout or scream, just kept waving until his father was almost out of sight, he was still standing on the platform, just like that waving, waving...
When my father returned home, the eldest brother's troops had already crossed the Yalu River and marched into the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and all this my father did not know at all. When my father knew, it was the martyr's certificate in his hand and a military hat that said it was the eldest brother- the volunteer army hat!
This was the last time my father and my eldest brother met!
The film "Chosin Lake" is one of the many genre films of China's War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and of course, it is also the most influential one of this genre filmed in recent years, and the rest are basically listed as old films. When I saw that Wu Wanli also followed his second brother Wu Qianli to the army to become a volunteer soldier, the touching deeds of the three brothers rushing to the battlefield made me think of a person again. This person's name is Sun Getian, and I learned about it during a visit to the "Bohai Corridor Memorial Hall" in Changyi City.
Sun Getian is a native of Yubu Village, Changyi City, he has 6 sons, since one night in the summer of 1938, he let the eldest son Sun Tongzhong quietly join the Eighth Route Army Ludong anti-Japanese guerrillas, to 1945, in just six or seven years, he successively let the other 5 sons all join the Eighth Route Army, the eldest son Sun Tongzhong was 22 years old as a soldier, because of his combat wit and bravery, at the end of the same year, he was promoted from squad leader and platoon leader to regiment chief of staff. The fifth son was 16 years old when he joined the army, while the youngest sixth son was only 14 years old when he joined the army.
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1945, the Changyi County Party Committee and the county government held a meeting of thousands of district representatives and local people in Yubu Village to solemnly commend Sun Getian's exemplary deeds and present him with a pennant with the words "One Door and Six Ying" written on it. Of Sun Getian's six sons, except for one who returned home injured, the remaining five died for the country.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the United States called the Korean War, this is the most influential international local war in the world after the "Second World War", for this war, the United States has filmed more than 30 movies, and there are also special documentaries "Blood Battle of Chosin Lake", "Chosin Lake Battle" and so on. The main purpose of American films, in addition to publicizing the strength of the US army and the advanced weapons and equipment, also tries to publicize the bravery, selflessness and sacrifice spirit of the American soldiers, but from their army, you simply find a hero like Dong Cunrui, Huang Jiguang, Qiu Shaoyun and other heroes in our army who hold explosives packs, block gun holes with their bodies, and live forever in the fire, but in our army, such heroes can be seen everywhere and emerge endlessly.
In the movie "Chosin Lake", the veteran lei gong who has been in the battlefield for a long time carries the "marker bomb" that has been burned red and still smoke billowing to the car, and when he personally drives to the enemy position, he obviously knows that it is to send him to death, but he has no hesitation and regards death as a homecoming. I also know that only our volunteer soldiers, only our People's Liberation Army soldiers, can have this feat! When I saw this, the name of a person appeared in front of my eyes again, his name was Tong Peiyou.
Tong Peiyou, he and I are neither relatives, nor colleagues, nor classmates, nor comrades-in-arms, but he and I have lived in a hot land.
That hot land is the town of Mengxuan in Zhucheng County, Shandong Province, which is now merged into Jiayue Town of Zhucheng.
Meng Yan is the place where Tong Peiyou first stepped into the military camp, which can be said to be the place he will always miss!
Meng Yan is the place where I served as the secretary of the party committee of the Meng Yan People's Commune and the secretary of the party committee of Meng Yan Town, where I worked for six years before and after, and it is also the place that I will always remember!
Meng Yan, the town government is stationed in Meng Yan Village, and the 414th Regiment of the 138th Division of Tong Peiyou's unit is also stationed in Meng Yan Village. This is also the place where all the foreigners who have worked in Meng yan town and the cadres and soldiers who have served as soldiers in the 414 regiment are the most worthy of eternal remembrance!
Meng Yan, I have worked and lived there for a long time, Tong Peiyou has definitely been there a lot less than me, the specific length is not clear, according to my estimation, he was there before and after the triumph of the war for less than two years at best. But for a year or two, he had also drunk the water there, eaten the food there, walked the roads there, climbed the mountains there, looked up at the blue sky and white clouds there, and overlooked the fields and crops there.
Because of this, I thought again that 37 years ago, I wrote an article about Tong Peiyou, and when the article was published, Weifang Daily used the title of "Wind and Smoke Rolling in Praise of Heroes", and "Shandong Youth" used "The Silhouette of a Soldier" when it was published. Today, I will republish the article "The Silhouette of a Warrior" with what I thought of when I watched the movie "Chosin Lake" for the benefit of readers!
Transcendent as the wind photography works to select the silhouette of a warrior
Silhouette of a warrior
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A resounding name, Tong Peiyou, was preached in a certain unit of the border defense unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
He's a warrior! He's a fighting hero!
His resume, in a word, is simple.
Age: 19 years gender: male Height: 1.76 m Education level: junior high school Enlistment time: December 1984 Position: warrior.
His appearance, in a word, was ordinary.
Black-red face, stilt nose, tight brows, bright eyes, slightly upturned lips.
His military age, in a word, was too short.
It was a military age too short to be embarrassed to say: from the time he enlisted in the army to the time he went to the front, the total number of days did not exceed four months.
Such a simple resume, such an ordinary appearance, such a short military age, and as soon as he spoke, his cheeks glowed red, revealing the shame of a girl, all of this could not hide the unique childishness and thickness of the children in the mountains.
However, it was he who was a battle hero who was well-known throughout the army and the whole country - on May 14, 1986, the Central Military Commission issued an order to award Tong Peiyou the glorious title of "National Combat Hero"!
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This is how Tong Peiyou went from eighteen to nineteen.
September 11 is Tong Peiyou's birthday.
This day in 1985 was the day when Tong Peiyou bid farewell to the age of eighteen to the age of nineteen, and it was also the first birthday he said goodbye to his hometown, said goodbye to his parents, and walked into the military camp from the mountains.
Eighteen years old, the age of youth, the golden years of life.
Eighteen years old, how admirable, how nostalgic, what an age worth singing!
"Ninety-nine that sunny day, eighteen-year-old brother sitting by the small river..."
"My little sister is eighteen years old, looks like a flower, and everyone says beautiful..."
From the movie interludes of the sixties to the pop songs of the eighties, singing an "eighteen-year-old" so beautifully, so beautifully, so intoxicatingly!
But, after all, it is a movie, it is a song after all, and on the real battlefield, whether you are eighteen or twenty-eight, what is given to you is unimaginable harshness and the danger of life and death.
The day when Tong Peiyou moved from the age of eighteen to the age of nineteen was the day when the enemy shelled the forward positions of our border troops.
From 6 a.m., the enemy began a dense artillery bombardment. The hysterical shelling was retaliation for the heavy blow I had inflicted on one of his reinforcement battalions on September 8. From 6:00 to 9:00 a.m., in just three hours, the enemy fired more than 5,540 rounds of artillery shells at our forward positions.
Listening to the roaring cannons, watching the destruction of many shelter fortifications in my forward position, Tong Peiyou's heart was on fire, his eyes were on fire, at this moment, the beautiful melody of the song was gone, the shadow of the eighteen-year-old handsome man and beautiful sister was gone, some were just angry, some were just boiling blood.
Perhaps it was the promotion of the specific environment on the battlefield, or perhaps it was the reminder of blood and fire in front of him, that day, Tong Peiyou did not forget his birthday, but thought of this day a few days ago. In order to prepare for the attack, Tong Peiyou's company stepped up training. The training is intense and serious, the standards are high, and the requirements are stricter than in the past. The discussion of comrades-in-arms and their own perceptions and experiences show that a cruel battle is quietly coming, and they and their comrades-in-arms are facing unprecedented severe tests. Therefore, in the gap between training, Tong Peiyou wrote a family letter and a letter of determination, and he planned to send the letter to his parents on his birthday and hand it to the party branch of the company. When he had finished his "birthday dinner" in the morning, sent the letter away, and submitted the letter of determination to the company, he unexpectedly received a message: the company commander was about to lead the combat team commander and above to the enemy's eyes for a latent reconnaissance. He is not the leader of the combat team, of course, he does not have his share, and the participation in the lurkers must be reported to the regiment for approval. In order to be able to participate in this lurking reconnaissance, as soon as Tong Peiyou handed in the letter of determination, he followed the company commander and repeatedly asked for participation step by step. The danger of lurking reconnaissance is too great, and one more person adds one more danger, and the company commander just does not agree to him and explains it to him repeatedly.
Tong Peiyou was anxious, and seeing that the latent troops were about to leave, he revealed his special relationship with the company commander: "Company commander, for the sake of me who has been a correspondent for you for a month, you will open a 'back door'!" ”
The "back door" is open!
On tong Peiyou's birthday, he finally opened the "back door" of the company commander and participated in the lurking reconnaissance. Together with other comrades, under the bombardment of artillery fire from both the enemy and us, he climbed all the way to a place about a hundred meters away from the enemy's forward position and lurked. This time the time of lurking was two days and two nights. In order to conceal oneself and not be discovered by the enemy, it is also necessary to clearly reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and before leaving, the superior commanders will give special orders when mobilizing, and all the scouts are not allowed to bring paper and pencil, but to keep in mind the situation they have seen, heard, and imagined, little by little, and not a single detail, and then come back to sum it up and report it to the chief to make a correct judgment and strategic deployment.
Tong Peiyou deeply felt the importance of the reconnaissance task, and we must not be sloppy or careless.
As he watched, he wrote it down to his heart, afraid of missing a drop. He firmly imprinted the various terrains, landforms, features, and the location of the tun bing caves and fire points on the enemy's positions.
When returning from the lurking point, all the scouts summed up the situation, Tong Peiyou drew a clear sketch according to what he had memorized in his head, that is, he himself detected the situation, everyone saw that all the situations on the sketch he drew were clearly and correctly marked, so they took his map as the basic map and summarized the situation they had detected, and Tong Peiyou's intelligence, flexibility, conception, and super memory were praised by the company commander and the superior chief.
After the situation of latent reconnaissance was summed up, Tong Peiyou remembered his birthday, and his birthday was that he risked his life to lie under the eyes of the enemy and endure the bites of mosquitoes and dry locusts, as well as the thirst and sweltering torment from the age of eighteen to the age of nineteen.
(iii)
He did it!
He wasn't in danger!
He crushed a passage for victory with his life for the safety of his comrades-in-arms!
That's not a fluke, that's not a fluke!
It wasn't for honor, he didn't know if there was any honor!
It wasn't that he was stupid, it wasn't that he was too stupid to die, he was like his comrades-in-arms, he was a soldier, and a soldier knew the preciousness of life better than anyone!
It was his brave, unhesitating, selfless and fearless sacrifice for the victory of the battle, for the lives of several comrades-in-arms, with his body of one meter and seven six meters!
"Tong Peiyou, you..."
When the comrades-in-arms had not yet reacted, Tong Peiyou hugged the gun to his chest, closed his eyes, and lay down, using all his strength to roll down a 30° slope at the fastest speed...
He was using his body to clear mines, using his body to crush a passage of life for his comrades-in-arms, and using his body to win every minute and second of the victory of the battle!
One meter, three meters, five meters, ten meters, fifteen meters, seventeen meters... Eighteen meters, the hearts of the comrades-in-arms were so nervous that they had already mentioned their throats, and suddenly saw Tong Peiyou standing up, he succeeded! Tong Peiyou stood up!
As the hearts of the comrades-in-arms landed, they saw Tong Peiyouxun bend his one-meter-seven-six stature, arch his body, and rush forward with his cat waist. The comrades-in-arms followed the passage that Tong Peiyou had crushed with his body to prove that there was no danger.
Tong Peiyou used his body to press through the grass, leaving his drops of sweat and blood, but also left the peaceful footprints of his comrades-in-arms crossing this area full of death...
It was a relatively large battle, and the key to winning or losing the battle was whether it could take a certain high ground first. In order to achieve a comprehensive victory in this campaign, it is necessary to first seize a certain high ground, for this reason, the regiment organized a sharp knife team, composed of three platoons of troops, and Wang Chunlin, deputy chief of staff of the regiment, personally served as the commander of the sharp knife team, and the task was to seize a certain high ground within the specified time and control the commanding heights for the entire campaign.
Tong Peiyou also passed through the "back door" of the company commander, joined the sharp knife team, and was organized into a platoon.
At 6:15 a.m. on September 23, the morning light first dawned, the dawn quietly arrived, and the battlefield between the enemy and the enemy was still shrouded in thick fog. Tong Peiyou and his comrades-in-arms, starting from the night of the 22nd, did not close their eyes all night, climbing the rock wall, through the woods, wading through the grass, and moving toward the front of the enemy position. At 6:15, they arrived at the designated charge point.
However, in front of us is a large slope type of open land, and there is no road sign. Clearly, the path opened by the sappers demining ends here. The absence of road signs means that the mines have not been cleared. The superiors also specially ordered that where there is no road sign, our soldiers must not set foot in. Just at this moment, the sound of gunfire came from the direction of the second platoon, indicating that they had exchanged fire with the enemy, and if the first platoon did not respond quickly, the entire combat deployment would be disrupted, and the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Time is victory", which is the crystallization of war experience. Especially in this case, if you are one minute earlier, or even one second earlier, you may take down the high ground, such as one minute or one second late, you will have to pay a double or even several times the price, and it may also cause failure!
Time is not waiting for anyone, but at this critical moment of great danger, this leads to the road ahead...
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Tong Peiyou stood up, and his comrades followed, and the next step was how to quickly occupy the commanding heights to control other hills and downs and cover the advance of the large troops.
Tong Peiyou didn't think much of it and rushed to the nearest mountain top of the main peak. Suddenly, not far to the right of the front, enemy machine guns fired desperately from the bunker, mixed with grenade throws, crushing the comrades behind them again. Taking advantage of the slightest opportunity that he had not been discovered by the enemy, Tong Peiyou quickly bowed his head and swerved back to the side of the bunker at the speed of sprinting, and by the light of the early morning, he found that the top of the bunker had been blown open by a shell and a small hole, and he desperately stuffed two grenades into it, and he immediately rolled aside. With the "boom" of two explosions, there was no more movement in the dark castle, and Tong Peiyou continued to rush towards the main peak...
After the battle, three blown-up enemy bodies and a blown-up machine gun were found in the bunker.
The charge on the battlefield is dangerous, tragic, difficult, tragic, the intersection of life and death, blood and fire, even if it is a step forward, a small step! And Tong Peiyou, the tall man of one meter and seven six, the usually quiet like a big girl, even talking is blushing shy and shy Tong Peiyou, at this time, from the moment he rolled out of the passage eighteen meters on the slope, to the moment he threw two grenades into the dark bunker to explode, he rushed to the main peak, but he seemed so alert, so flexible, so agile, and so quick to react, no, not only this, he was also like the sea surging and undulating waves when they climbed the coast. That bo is so powerful, so powerful, so unstoppable!
(5)
"Who was the first to rush to the main peak of the position?"
This question became a difficult problem in post-war evaluation.
"Battles are difficult to fight, and merit is difficult to evaluate" because "there are more monks and less porridge", and the number of meritorious places is not enough?
No.
Is it because the warriors are eager to do merit and are not making a fuss about being a hero?
Nor is it.
In the sharp knife team, the battle was fought beautifully, but the evaluation really encountered difficulties.
Wang Chunlin, the commander of the sharp knife team and deputy chief of staff of the regiment, who handled the problem as shrewd and decisive as directing the battle, already had a bottom in his heart, but he deliberately did not say it from his own mouth, and he wanted everyone to find out, so that it would be more convincing and more able to exert the power of example. Therefore, he said to everyone: "Our sharp knife team has been 'crisp' in the fight, but they have all become 'dumb fire', check, first check who was the first to rush to the main peak!" ”
After the battle began, when Wang Chunlin led the command post personnel of the sharp knife team to a place only 60 meters away from the enemy position, the direction of the second platoon and the command post were suddenly interrupted, and when he searched for the situation of the second platoon with a telescope, he saw a soldier in the camera who sometimes jumped up, sometimes crawled, and rushed alone to the main peak of the position occupied by the enemy.
"At the height of the battle, we attacked behind the high flank, and the enemy used the cover of the bunker to block our advance with fire, and if someone hadn't blown up the enemy's bunker and rushed to the front to contain the enemy on the main peak, our casualties would have been great!" The second platoon leader provides the information first.
Several warriors who had been rushing ahead in the battle were talking on the side, including Tong Peiyou. They commented, "At that time, we were red-eyed, and there was fog, and we didn't pay attention to who was the first to rush up..."
"Don't worry, you'll find out soon!" Wang Chunlin said to several soldiers who were discussing.
"This man must be among a few of us!" A platoon leader emphatically said.
"It's him! Tong Peiyou! "Sixth Class Elder Sun Xiaobin came over. He remembered very clearly that when he was rushing to the enemy's main peak position, the grass hut outside the mouth of the enemy's cave was built by Tong Peiyou, and it was Tong Peiyou who threw out two grenades and an explosive pack in a row to blow it up and collapse, and it was only through the smoke from the burning smoke of the grass shed that he rushed to Tong Peiyou's side, and Tong Peiyou rushed forward.
In the face of Sun Xiaobin's "exposé", Tong Peiyou blushed, but he still did not admit it: "That morning the fog was heavy, don't you look at the flower eyes, right?" ”
"That's right, it's you!" Sun Xiaobin produced evidence—he detailed the process of destroying the enemy's command post.
Soldier Lu Xinyan and squad leader Liu Yuquan also rose up to testify.
When Wang Chunlin saw that it was time for him to make his final speech, he said, "Tong Peiyou, when you rushed to the main peak, did you fall when you inserted the explosive canister into the enemy's bunker?" ”
Without thinking, Tong Peiyou asked back, "How do you know?" ”
Wang Chunlin smiled.
No more admitting it, even the chief of this detail knew that the first thing he rushed to the main peak was hidden, and if he didn't admit it, it would cause all the comrades of the sharp knife team to be uneasy, and the evaluation could not continue, so his face turned crimson and he said, "Then admit it!" ”
What a rare recognition!
What a valuable admission!
What does this recognition mean?
Is it for honor?
No, Tong Peiyou never thought about honor or honor. He and his comrades-in-arms, for the sake of merit, for the sake of honor, all made their faces red.
Honor is lovely, precious, and charming. These two words have cast a heavy word that has been admired and pursued from ancient times to the present, some of which are of great value, some of which have a high gold content, and some of which cannot be measured by money, and because of its cuteness and preciousness, I don't know how many people have struggled for it, I don't know how many people have fallen for it, and I don't know how many people have changed their original beautiful hearts in order to grab honor? However, in this battlefield full of guns, bullets, cannons, and fire, in the face of blood and fire that is full of life danger every second, in this temporary formation of sharp knife teams, not only shows the cuteness of honor everywhere, but also shows our group of PLA soldiers who are more lovely than honor!
Tong Peiyou is an outstanding representative of this group of the most adorable PLA soldiers!
This child of Yimeng Mountain, this child who came out of Yimeng Mountain, this sweet potato of Mengshan Mountain strengthened his body, the water of Yi river nourished the children of Yimeng Mountain who nourished the blood around him, when he guarded the gate of the motherland and fought on the border battlefield of the motherland, he thought not about honor, he thought about his motherland, he thought of his hometown, he thought of his parents, he thought of his father's words when he joined the army and the affectionate gaze of his parting, he thought of his comrades-in-arms who had just been talking and laughing, and a battle came down. Just watch the glorious sacrifice of your own side...
The harmonious relationship between the military and the local government is not only that the town party committee, government, and troops are friendly units, but also from a personal point of view, I am also good friends with Zhuang Enpu, the leader of the 414 regiment, and Fan Xue, the political commissar. At the beginning of 1985, when the troops received the order to go to the front, I immediately held an enlarged meeting of the party committee, expanded to the responsible persons of the departments directly under the town, let everyone take the lead, and mobilized cadres and workers to donate money, and used the donations to purchase some materials to comfort the commanders and fighters of the garrison, not only to send the troops a deep friendship and good wishes of the people stationed in the garrison, but also to conduct the most realistic education on supporting the army and loving the army for the cadres and workers of the whole town, because the commanders and fighters of the 414 regiment were about to leave, they were going to rush to the front, they were going to kill the enemy and defend the country, and they had to shed blood and sacrifice!
For the sake of Tujili, I made a decision based on 10, called "Perfect perfection", and personally arranged for the town food station to kill 10 pigs and 10 sheep; the grain management office prepared 10 bags of flour, 10 bags of rice, and 10 bags of millet; the supply and marketing cooperatives prepared 10 barrels (10 kilograms per barrel) of liquor, 10 barrels of soybean oil, 10 barrels of soy sauce, 10 barrels of rice vinegar, 10 cigarettes, a total of 10 kinds of condolences.
After the "perfect" condolences were ready, Wang Runtian, mayor of the town, led the heads of the five departments with the most contact with the troops, as well as the party branch secretaries of the three villages where Meng Yan, Weijiazhuang, and Majiazhuang were stationed, went to the troops to offer condolences to the troops.
On that day, the sky was clear, the temperature was cold, a few white clouds drifted from a distance and flew slowly over Meng Xuan, the cold air carried the unique wilderness taste of Meng Yan with the breeze gently blowing across our cheeks, the regimental commander Zhuang Enpu and the political commissar Fan Xue stood at the gate of the barracks with a smile and greeted us warmly, from their warm smiles, I seemed to see a special solemnity, and my heart immediately produced a burst of unspeakable discomfort, but I could not show it, and I could only use a smile to match with the smile of the regiment leader and the political commissar. Without too many words to say, I only send the wishes of the people stationed in the garrison that the troops will be "perfect" on the front line. After a few greetings, it was time to review the troops.
It was a military parade specially arranged by the regimental commander and political commissar, and it was also to reassure the people stationed in the garrison that they would heroically kill the enemy after arriving at the front, play a role in military prestige, play a national prestige, bravely make battle achievements, create a "perfect and perfect" record, return triumphantly, and live up to the expectations of the people stationed in the garrison.
Accompanied by zhuang enpu, regimental commander, and political commissar Fan Xue, mayor Wang Runtian and I stood on the makeshift review platform, followed by the head of the department and other heads of the regiment, and the troops walked past the review platform in several directions. The mighty warriors who were heroic and mighty, the sonorous and powerful neat steps, accompanied by their high-pitched and majestic slogans, resounded through the clouds and resounded through the land of Meng Yan!
Watching the neat procession walk in front of us, I was more excited than a kind of heaviness, I knew that it was not a military parade during the usual training of the troops, nor was it a military parade on the important festivals of the Founding Day and national day, it was a military parade that was about to go to the battlefield, it was a parade that was about to face blood and fire, it was about to face injury and disability, it was about to face life and death, and every commander and fighter was about to face a dangerous unknown that could not be interpreted, and it was a cruel unknown on the battlefield that could not interpret the results. At that moment, I suddenly remembered my eldest brother, remembered the last separation between my father and my eldest brother, and remembered the eldest brother who sent my father to the return train. As the train started, the father stretched out his arm from the window and waved to the eldest brother, who stood on the platform and waved to his father, to the train, to the distance. The eldest brother waved his hand like that, until he couldn't see his father, he couldn't see the train...
Standing on the parade stand, I didn't have time to think about it at all, but as I waved to the soldiers who walked in front of the parade stand, the scene of my father and my eldest brother waving at each other at the station was reflected in front of my eyes, as if interacting with the soldiers in front of me. At that time, his father did not know the purpose of the eldest brother to return to his hometown, and the eldest brother only explained to his father that the troops were going to change their defenses and set off to the northeast, but did not say that they wanted to go to the Korean battlefield to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. The eldest brother's heart is very clear, waving with his father may be a farewell; waving with his father may be waving forever, it may be a wave of the hand if there is an afterlife, but he will never dare to let his father see the clues. Later, it turned out that the eldest brother waved to his father forever, and after waving his hand, the father never saw his eldest son waving at him again, and his eldest son had remained forever on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea!
Looking at the mighty and majestic soldiers of the 414 regiment walking in front of me, listening to a high-pitched and powerful slogan they shouted, my heart sighed, my eyes were blurred, my eyes were hot, and the tears that could not be stopped flowed down, and the tears were hot and hot...
When the parade was over, I saw that the eyes of Commander Zhuang and Commissar Fan were also wet!
There was no humility, no politeness, and at lunch that day, Mayor Wang and I and the heads of other departments that went together stayed at the "small guest house" of the troops. Of course, that lunch was indispensable to drink, originally the amount of alcohol was not large, that day at noon was extraordinary, drank a full 1 pound of high liquor, the head although a little dizzy, but the brain is still very clear, including with me to the other comrades in the army, did not violate my strict requirements before going: not a single unlucky word is allowed to be spoken from our population, including similar battlefields can not avoid casualties, there are sacrifices in war, bullets do not have long eyes, shells are not tall and short, and so on with comforting meanings. Only say triumphant return, only say "perfect", if there is no good language and vocabulary, then simply be "dumb"!
After lunch, when we were about to leave the unit and break up with the regimental commander, the political commissar, and the other regimental leaders, I hugged the regimental commander and the political commissar tightly. In that hug, the three of us burst into tears at the same time! With tears in my eyes, I said loudly, not to say, almost loudly shouting: "Comrades, chiefs, on behalf of the party committee, government and the people of Mengxuan Town, I sincerely wish all the commanders and fighters of our 414 regiment to the front line, heroically kill the enemy, win a comprehensive victory in the war, and return triumphantly with 'perfect perfection'." On your triumphant day, I and the people of the whole town will line up to welcome you from the border of Meng yan town to the two sides of the main road at the gate of the barracks of the troops! On that day, still in this room, or the rest of us, we drank celebratory wine together! ”
Originally I wanted to say, "Still in this room, or those of us, no less, let's drink celebratory wine together", but when the words came to my mouth, I swallowed "not one less" into my stomach, but my voice was no longer an ordinary speech, but shouted out with uncontrollable choking!
In June 1986, the Zhucheng County Party Committee issued a notice that the troops stationed in Zhucheng (412 and 414 regiments) would get off the train station at Gaomi Railway Station on x x day and return to the garrison, and the townships along the way in Zhucheng County should organize the masses to welcome them on both sides of the highway. When I received the notice from the county party committee, I originally wanted to organize the Mengxuan people to welcome the jiadao, and with the notice of the county party committee, I was even more emotional, so I carried out a strict organization of the jiadao welcome.
When the triumphant troops were all riding on "Liberation Brand" trucks, when they entered the territory of Meng Yan, I went to the gate of the barracks of the troops in advance to wait for the regimental commander and political commissar.
As we hugged each other tightly again, the three of us washed our faces with tears almost at the same time. Those tears are not the tears of the expedition, but the tears of triumph, the tears of victory, the tears of joy, the tears of experiencing the test of life and death, the tears of realizing "perfection" in the rain of bullets and bullets!
A few days later, the town party committee held a meeting of the leading cadres of the whole town and the party members of the departments directly under the town and the three villages stationed in the station, and asked Political Commissar Fan Xue to make a field report of the commanders and fighters of the 414 regiment on the front line. In his report, Political Commissar Fan told the bravery, fearlessness, flexibility, tact, and unafraid of bloodshed and sacrifice of the commanders and fighters of the 414 Regiment on the battlefield, the thrilling and exciting battles one after another, one dangerous scene after another, and one thrilling and touching battlefield story after another, and especially told the heroic deeds of Tong Peiyou. After the report meeting, I interviewed Commissar Fan again, so I wrote down the previous articles and published them in the "Shandong Youth" magazine No. 9 in 1986 and the Weifang Daily on August 2, 1986, respectively, with the titles of "The Silhouette of a Soldier" and "The Wind and Smoke Billowing Heroes".
The 414th Regiment of the 138th Division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which was once stationed in Mengxuan, is a heroic unit, not only a national combat hero like Tong Peiyou, but also a commander and fighter of the whole regiment who has good command and brave combat.
When I left Meng Yan and took up a new job, I was always worried about and concerned about the 414 regiment. About a short time after I left Meng Yan, I knew that the regimental commander Zhuang Enpu first entered the National Defense University for further study, and later served as the deputy commander of the 138th Division; the political commissar Fan Xue transferred to the Anyang Military Sub-district as the deputy political commissar; the deputy chief of staff Wang Chunlin was transferred to the 413 regiment as the regimental commander (the 413 regiment was stationed in Anqiu), and attended the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China with honor.
And the protagonist of my article, Tong Peiyou, was directly naturalized in the military academy from Meng Yan, and after graduation, he is said to be a member of the Standing Committee of the Weifang Municipal Committee of the CPC and the political commissar of the Weifang Military Subdistrict!
This is our warrior!
Our ordinary and great warriors!